Early Church · 375

On the Holy Spirit

Basil of Caesarea (c. 330-379)

Written in 375 to defend the full divinity of the Holy Spirit against the Pneumatomachi, who accepted the Son as divine but refused the same honor to the Spirit. Basil argues from Scripture and liturgical tradition that the Spirit must be numbered and glorified with the Father and the Son, not ranked under or after them. One of the most important pneumatological treatises in Christian history, it shaped the Nicene settlement on the Spirit's person and laid the theological groundwork for the Council of Constantinople in 381.

3 hrs total · 30 chapters